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2. suckered

Reply to Berlum (Reply #1)

Mon Mar 18, 2013, 10:46 AM

Mar 2013

MARTIN SMITH: Many people that supported the war no longer do.

AHMAD CHALABI: Yes.

MARTIN SMITH: They feel that they were suckered.

AHMAD CHALABI: Yes, probably.

MARTIN SMITH: They say so.

AHMAD CHALABI: OK. I mean, I don't-- you know, I'm not a--

MARTIN SMITH: Well, I mean, the-- you know, half the people now feel that the war wasn't justified on the grounds that it was argued for.

AHMAD CHALABI: OK.

MARTIN SMITH: Do you feel any discomfort with that?

AHMAD CHALABI: No. We are in Baghdad now.

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Dickie "Five-Military-Deferments" Cheney (R) Berlum Mar 2013 #1

suckered bigtree Mar 2013 #2

Chalabi was convicted in the 90s of a massive bank fraud in Jordan muriel_volestrangler Mar 2013 #3

what the hell was Chalabi choie Mar 2013 #4